SF Tidbits for 11/28/09

Interviews & Profiles

• Locus Online has interview excerpts with Cory Doctorow (Makers) and Jack Skillingstead (Are You There? And Other Stories).
• @The Dragon Page: J.C. Hutchins (Part 2)
• @The Literary Project: Dan Abnett.
• @Innsmouth Free Press: Malcolm Barber.

News & Articles

• Ann & Jeff VanderMeer’s anthology Steampunk Reloaded is open to (reprint) submissions.
• Here’s a book trailer for Aliette De Bodard’s Servant of the Underworld.
• Jo Walton reveiws Seteven Brust’s The Phoenix Guards.
• The website for the game Star Wars: Old Republic has some stellar wallpaper downloads. [via Super Punch]
• An Intersection of Art and Technology in the Early Space Race. [via Big Dumb Object]
• The Website at the End of the Universe on Science fiction recommendations for kids and teenagers.
• Mish Sci Fi Musings on Asimov and Socionomics.
• More pics emerge from Smallville, showing images of Michael Shanks as Hawkman, Britt Irvin as Stargirl, Brent Strait as Doctor Fate and Justin Hartley as Green Arrow. Holy bottom-of-the-hero-barrel, Batman!

Lists

• Techland identifies 2 Game-Changing SF Novels recently read.
• NY Times 100 Notable Books of 2009 includes titles by Lethem, Powers, and Atwood; Janet Maslin’s Top 10 includes Stephen King’s Under the Dome. [via Locus Online]
• BestScienceFictionStories lists 9 Christmas Gift Ideas: Movie Bundles Based on Science Fiction Short Stories.
• Ten Fantasy Meals Mary Robinette Kowal Would Rather Eat Than Thanksgiving Leftovers.
• @SFX: 14 Greatest Format-Breaking SF & Fantasy TV Episodes Ever.

Related posts:

1. SF Tidbits for 2/3/08
2. SF Tidbits for 3/9/08
3. SF Tidbits Part XVIII
4. SF Tidbits for 1/21/07
5. SF Tidbits for 2/9/06

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